Grian – How to make a Mini Minecraft Castle (Pocket Castle)

Now i don’t normally do block for block tutorials and i think most people know how i feel about them that they don’t really teach you much but for this series pocket builds i am going to sort of do a block for block tutorial i’m going to give you some dimensions and

Help you work to the scale that i’m building but at the same time i want you to try and detail it differently and i’ll leave a lot open for creativity that being said let’s get into our first one which is the pocket castle so obviously the first thing that needs to

Be said is i’m working with a flat world and the normal terrain isn’t so try and work with whatever terrain you want to build in we’re going to start with a very simple floor plan and you want to build three by three by three by three

With that three by three space in the middle then we want to extend out another three blocks then a five then a three kind of just matching exactly what i’m doing here it’s very simple three out five in making sure that you add that layer of depth and then another three

And you basically repeat this round until you have a square now it’s kind of obvious to tell that these three by threes are going to be the towers and the rest is going to be the walls with a little bit of depth planned in there as

Well so now we need to raise this corner up 10 blocks that’s the recommended height i would suggest for this build now this is where creativity comes into play we now need to detail each side i decided to add a little bit of an indent with some red color and some iron bars

This is where i would recommend you find a different way of detailing your castle so it doesn’t look exactly the same as mine try and make it scream you i obviously chose red because of the colour of my shirt you then want to add some stone brick staircases for the

Crenellations of this tower they are intentionally short to match the scale i then went ahead and changed the stone to mix of stone brick and cracked stone brick and then added a few more details the detailing is up to you but i would recommend using a mixture of gray blocks

To create a texture for your tower just having it as stone will not have a nice effect once you’ve done that you then need to replicate each tower into all four corners of your layout this build may seem complicated to begin with but once we get going and you do it step by

Step it’s actually fairly simple we now obviously need to fill in the walls so we’re going to be using a very similar recipe to the towers we’re going to start with some normal stone start detailing it and then we’re actually going to start some more complicated stuff with the detailing adding extra

Layers so these indents are going to be a common theme in the castle and we’re going to try and match that theme throughout the build now that bit is fairly simple but up here we’re going to add a lot of shape and i’m going to take

Things very slowly if you do want to copy me block for block that is completely fine so essentially what i’m doing is having a red backdrop and using a lot of staircases at different angles to produce some decorative shapes they don’t really add anything they don’t spell anything out they’re just a bunch

Of shapes put together if you mess up an angle it will look odd next i then use stone brick staircase to try and produce an arch shape this can get a little bit complicated because it’s quite hard to read without the hitboxes directly visible however if you take things slow

You should be able to produce a shape much like that it doesn’t have to be exactly the same i do stress that on the other side we just need to tidy things up so we’re gonna go for these indent theme as i said earlier and then cover

Up any stained clay that’s showing with some cobblestone staircase so there we have one wall now that we’ve done that much like the towers we need to just go ahead and change the texture so it’s not completely stone it adds a level of detail that isn’t present if it’s just

Stone we then go and replicate it much like the towers and produce the walls of our build now obviously it’s going to take you a lot longer to replicate it than it does for me because i’m using world edit now that’s just speeding up the process for this tutorial you don’t

Need to see me build the same thing four times you guys should be able to replicate something but we do need to add a door that is pretty essential so i’ve just covered up the indent with some wood to indicate where the door should be and then i added a bunch of

Buttons and a bit of an arch over it to decorate it very very simple now you’ll notice that there isn’t actually a physical door that’s because we will go over an option to add a redstone door later so just skirting around the walls adding some detail and shape so what are

We gonna do inside well for the most part we’re going to have some sort of courtyard but we want to add a keep that’s the main part of the castle and the bit that you can store stuff in so you can see i marked where the center

Was and i created a square in line with where we made the indents it should be fairly simple and obvious where this needs to go you then raise up the tower making sure that when you’re just above the wall you create another indent you will also notice that in the corners it is

Not completely square i’ve added shape in the corners just by removing that corner block that really helps give it some shape that they otherwise wouldn’t have this is the base of your tower and it’s up to you how you want to detail it but if you want to copy me again it’s

Fairly simple to do i’ve added the indentations which is the kind of theme that i’ve been going for added some cobblestone walls some slabs and some staircase to detail and then along with some more indents with some further additions of iron bars we start to get a

Real feel for the keep now we’re going to go ahead and start the top bit now this bit is a little bit harder because we’re going to be adding a bit more shape so you can see i added some cobblestone staircase on the indentations and then built a stone

Circular base above it we’re then going to use that to make some larger crenellations to the ones that we did earlier because we want this to stand out i added some cobblestone walls on the top of those just to add more detail to the crenellations i also added some

Cobblestone slab just to make sure that the shape was absolutely perfect on this build i really like the shape of the keep and it’s the key element to the castle the walls create the base and the keep is what your eyes are drawn to now it’s time to start changing all that

Stone into the mixture of gray blocks to produce a texture this is what really adds the detail a lot of people forget that adding just a couple of blocks in the mixture with the similar palette is what brings a lot of detail to a build

Next up i’m now making just a very quick house it’s up to you what you want to fill your castle with i don’t want to tell you how to do it because to be honest with you the courtyard is yours for the making as far as i’m concerned

The layout that we began with is the crux of the tutorial and anything that you want to make inside is your creative freedom the idea of this pocket build series is to produce something that looks good and isn’t too difficult to make sometimes builds can be so daunting on a

Tutorial just because of the sheer size of it but if you break this build down it’s incredibly simple you have one segment of wall and tower and you replicate it round and you’ve got yourself a very easy good-looking castle i’ve then gone and filled in all of the

Keeps just to make sure that you can walk around it and it’s more practical and added a flag on the top in my colors so that everyone knows that this belongs to me you can make the flag as big as small as you want it’s up to you i tend

To do mine a bit like this very rugged looking so from a distance it actually looks like it’s swaying in the wind so that’s the entire castle design i really like it and the idea of this pocket build is to have something very miniature this is about as small as i

Can go for a castle and this is my original design along with the help of botbox we both cracked out this design for everyone to use now if you’re happy just adding a normal door to this build and using it freely this is where the

Video ends however if you want to have a hidden door that uses one of the buttons on the facade door i’m going to give you a quick two minute tutorial on how to add a lovely hidden door so that you can keep everything looking really flush and

Neat and no need to add a physical door itself so this is the redstone design it’s perhaps not the most compact thing this was made by botbox so thank you very much this is the in button and that is the out button all we have to do is pretty

Much press the button it creates a pulse which eventually fades out it keeps the door open in the meantime and then fades and closes again and this works on both sides you don’t really need to understand how it works i just copied it and so can you

I’m no redstone expert but bopbox knew how to do this so i’m just gonna copy him much like you’re gonna now copy me so i hollowed out this entire area and added a few blocks underneath and a simple redstone wiring where we’re now going to add a bunch of

Comparators to create the delay that we’re after i added four and then a ring around and then another four going the other direction that’s probably the bit that’s most complex we then add a couple bits more a stone block with a redstone torch on this is what’s going to control the actual door

And a redstone on the top look i’m not mumbo jumbo and i know a lot of redstone people are probably cringing really hard at me trying to do this but essentially i’m trying my best guys i’m just gonna copy what bopbox did and fit it into my

Build it works that’s all we really need to know if you can do it better by all means do it better i’m just ringing around the outward connection from the door that’s on the inside so that the button will work on the same comparator that comparator system is literally just the

Delay and then we just need to link up the two buttons you’ll notice i actually haven’t placed the pistons yet that’s because the pistons are the last thing if you ask me you can test it without them if you have any problems with the wall just change it to a staircase block

And the redstone will pass right through and you can cover up anything else so that’s pretty much the redstone circuit working without the pistons right now so we can see that it turns off and on as we wish on both buttons so now all we need to do is add the pistons

In the right place knock out the bit of the wall that you don’t need and add the piston to that block and one above it and fill it back in let’s give it another test to make sure it works and it stays open for a substantial

Amount of time so that we can walk in and now we need to just cover up the mess that we’ve made and never look at my horrible redstone ever again thank you botbox for saving me i would have never attempted this on my own i’d rarely touch redstone

It’s been absolutely years since i even tried to do it so that’s just a you know a little bit embarrassing more than anything else i should probably try some more redstone but anyway that is it for the build including the hidden door that is everything you need for your pocket

Castle i sincerely hope that you’ve enjoyed this build and this style it’s like semi block for block and semi time lapse with a bit of creativity i’d love to hear your comments on what you have to say about this video good bye